Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Electronic surveillance in the United States is governed primarily by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act ("ECPA").]Most of ECPA's provisions date from 1986, before the public Internet, widespread mobile telephone service, cloud computing or social networking.2The challenge of applying ECPA's framework to technologies its drafters did not anticipate has become a source of increasing frustration for courts, law enforcement agencies, service providers and ordinary citizens.3 A number of organizations have spearheaded credible and serious reform efforts that show promise of bringing ECPA into the 21st Century, but the
Author: Charles H. Kennedy
Language: English
Topic: Criminal Law and Evidence
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W59939846